Collar.



A. R. SOHORBOK.

COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZ, 1912.

Patented June 9, 1914 .I7Z7/67ZZ07. dwarf/11507207 601 6 finesse COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 2, 1912. I, Serial No. 694,683.

Patented J line 9, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT R. Sononnorr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars; and I do hereby declare that the follow1ng 1s a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thls specification.

This invention relates to improvements in turn-down collars, and refers more particularly to an improved construction and arrangement of the collar to facllitate the slidin of the necktie therethrou h when adjusting the tie to the collar and or holding the tie in position on the collar at the front thereof without drawing the tie uncomfortably tight about the neck of the wearer.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is an interior face view of a collar embodying my invention, showing a necktie applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

The collar 10 herein shown is a typical turn-down collar, having an outer fold or member 11 and an inner fold or member 12. The said inner fold is provided at the sides of the rear buttonhole 14, and closely adjacent thereto, with slits or openings which open upwardly into the fold from the lower edge thereof, each slit comprising a straight portion 15 which extends through the lower edge of the fold, and an upwardly and oblique portion 16. Said slits are made of such width as to permit the tie band to slide freely therethrough and their width may be greater than herein shown. The said fold is also provided near its outer ends with oblique openings 17 17 through which the tie freely ,slides which do not open through the lower edge of the fold. The oblique portions 16 of the slits are made of sufficient width to receive the tie 18 which is threaded through said slits and openings in the manner indicated in Fi 1. When said tie is threaded through t e slits and openings, the portions of the tie between i the slits lie in the space between the inner and outer folds; the portions thereof between the slits and the openings 17 lie inside the inner fold, and the portions of the tie between the openings 17 and the ends of the collar lie between the folds of the collar.

The arrangement of the slits and openings as described, and the lacing of the tie therethrough has the effect to remove a substantial length of the tie from the space between the folds of the collar, so as to thereby reduce the binding effect of the folds on the tie and thereby permit the tie to slide through the collar more readily than if the entire band portion of the tie in contact with the collar should lie between the folds. The tie is therefore freed from the folds of the collar in the parts thereof between the slits 16 and the openings 17, or in the parts of the collar which most tightly bind the tie. In practice, the central portion of the tie lies above the rear button hole of the collar so that the tie at this place is above the rear collar button. Moreover, the lacing of the tie through the openihgs 17 near the ends of the collar has the effect to support the tie and prevent the front part of it from dropping downwardly when the tie is made up and adjusted on the collar. The made up tie is therefore supported in proper position at the front openin of the collar without drawing the tie undu y tight about the neck of the wearer such as occurs in the use of the ordinary collar. My improvements are therefore specially adapted to wide front summer collars in which the drawing of the t e tightly about the neck of the wearer to hold it in place is extremely uncomfortable. The opening of said slits through the lower edge of the inner fold of the collar is an advantage, inasmuch as it enables the tie band to be more readily applied to the collar and removed therefrom. The arrangement of the slits at the center of the collar, embodying the straight portions 15 and the oblique portion 16 forms at the intersection of the said straight and oblique portions shoulders 19 which prevent the tie band dropping downwardly out of said slits.

I claim as my invention A collar comprising an outer and an inner foldwith center and end button-holes in the inner fold, said collar having an oblique slit. i

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obliquely extending opening between the as my invention I aflix my signature in the center and end holes, an obliquely extending slit in said fold at each side of and adjacent April, A. D. .1912;

the center button-hole, and an open-end ver- I ALBE 5 tical slit forming a continuation of; each \Vitnesses:

W. L. HALL, i ,HARRY GAI-THER.

v In testlmony, that I claim the foregoing Copies 0! this potent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressin ,Washington, D. 0.

presenceof two witnesses th is 27th day of RT R. SCHORECK.

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